I had to stop for a brief fit of weeping.

Gradually her delirium became coma; she lay huddled and still in the cot, shaken only by the brief fits of shivering.

The yaks frisked, shook their heads, wagged their tails, pawed the ground and had brief fits of temper.

We listened to his receding crutches and a brief coughing fit.

As if to illustrate, she had a brief coughing fit.

For as long as anyone can remember, politics in Louisiana has been an entertaining embarrassment interrupted by brief fits of reform.

Marguerida merely shrugged, looking beatific until she erupted into a brief fit of coughing, while everyone laughed.

Shostakova recovered from her brief fit of laughter at Rozhenko's bluntness.

When she tries to destroy the page Sloane, in a brief fit of madness, pushes her into a glass coffee table.

Willard had a brief coughing fit.